Well first off your own Queen is but a figurehead with no real power anymore since you're a democratic society now. If u go back in your own history to King George or the like, they very much had absolute power. It's whether or not they abused it
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The magna carter changed that.
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Yes in 1215, but before that and in other countries the King could do as he pleased. Hell I'm sure English Kings still did. There was just now a legal recourse for the more common folk. But the Magna Carta was a big step in the direction of modern democracy
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